Galileo

GALILEO

Contributions: - Refracting telescope



His agreed with such controversial views at the time such as Copernicus's heliocentric ideas. Some of which society could not adapt to yet, he was forced to recant his great ideas because he was misunderstood.

Many believe that Galileo ended up being punished due to tensions between him and the Jesuits. During the course of Galileo's progress the Jesuits were among the few people who agreed with his ideas and teachings. In 1619, Galileo published a work on comets that attcked the ideas previously published by a Jesuit professor, Horacio Grassi. The two continued to publish works that attacked each other up until 1623 when Galileo published the Assayer. This book became the final of the dispute. The contents of the book invoked many arguements due to it saying that all people should follow Galileo's structure for performing scientific experiments.